Summary

Global Problems: The Search for Equity, Peace, and Sustainability examines the various dimensions of globalization and the social problems of inequality, war and violence, and environmental sustainability that are occurring on a global scale. Clear writing and vivid, current examples help readers to better understand their roles as global citizens. The book is divided into three parts: Part I focuses on the challenges of global inequalities: in life chances, wages and work, gender and education. Part II focuses on conflict and violence at all levels: from crime to politics, terrorism to war. Part III focuses on the issue of sustainability and the problems of urbanization, crowding, and environmental destruction.

Table of Contents

Introduction

The Global Century.Dateline

New York (World Trade Center).Dateline

South Pacific (Amazon millionaires)

Globalization and issues of power and opportunity, exploitation and exclusion, empowerment and integration

Poverty, violence, and environmental destruction and the search for equity, peace, and sustainability

Seeking an Equitable World: Issues of Inequality

Class: A World of Rich and Poor

Dateline: Cantrall, Illinois; Mojokerto, Indonesia.Inequalities Between and Among Nations

Theories of Class and Economy

An Old Argument: Modernization and Dependency Theories

Looking Back and Looking Ahead: Humanizing Development

Work: The Global Assembly Line

Dateline Benin (slave ship); Seattle

The Division of Labor

The New Frontier

Made by Small Hands

Free Trade and Fair Trade

Race to the Bottom.Ordering the World Market

Reversing the Race to the Bottom

Gender and Family: Overburdened Women and Displaced Men

Dateline: Benton Harbor (single parenting)

Nietzsche undone: from superman to super mom

Tired, stressed women and angry, alienated men

Locked In and Shut Out

Global family changes

Feminist theory and world feminist movements

Education: Access and Success

Dateline: Congo and Pakistan

The Foundations of Education

And who will care for the children?Education Around the World

Opening Doors, Opening Minds

Seeking A Peaceful World: Issues of Conflict

Crime: Fear in the Streets

Dateline: Columbia

Seeking security

Street crime and youth violence in the US and around the world

Incarceration around the world

This cokes for you: international drug trade

International crime cartels

War: States of Terror

Dateline: Angola, civil war

How states made war and how war made states

Empires in Collision

From Limited War to Total War to Cold War

From world war to regional conflict

The Global Arms Trade

Military expenditures

Mills and Eisenhower on the military-industrial complex

Weapons of Mass Destruction

Heroes or humanitarians: What then should the military do?The last great war? Theories of peace and conflict